Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality

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Vaudreuil-Soulanges ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is located on a triangular peninsula in the western Montérégie region of Quebec, formed by the confluence of the Ottawa River to the north, and the St. Lawrence River to the south. Ontario is located west of here.

Geography

Vaudreuil-Soulanges is part of the St Lawrence Valley. Two million years ago the region was subject to a series of glaciations that covered much of North America. The last in the series was the Wisconsin glaciation. The ice sheet weighed down the landscape. This created the depressions in the land that created the basins for Lake Saint-Louis, Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Lake Saint-Francis. As the ice sheet eroded, the region was mostly submerged 12,000 years ago by an inland saltwater sea known as the Champlain Sea. Once the glacier was melted, the land rose again, pushing the saltwater into the sea. 10,000 years ago the body of water, now a fresh water lake, has been named by scholars as Lake Lampsilis.

History

During the French colonial period, the region of New France was divided into several seigneuries populated by French colonists.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Seigneurie de L'Île-Perrot founded on October 29, 1672 (modern day L'Île-Perrot, Pincourt, Notre-Dame-de-L'Île-Perrot and Terrasse-Vaudreuil)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Seigneurie de Vaudreuil founded on October 12, 1702 (modern day Vaudreuil-Dorion, Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, L'Île-Cadieux, Saint-Lazare and Hudson<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Seigneurie de Soulanges founded on October 12, 1702 (modern day Saint-Clet, Coteau-du-Lac, Les Cèdres and Pointe-des-Cascades)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Seigneurie de Rigaud founded on October 29, 1732 (modern day Rigaud, Sainte-Marthe, Pointe-Fortune and Très-Saint-Rédempteur)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Seigneurie de Nouvelle-Longueuil founded on April 21, 1734 (modern day Saint-Polycarpe, Saint-Télesphore, Saint-Zotique, Les Coteaux et Rivière-Beaudette)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Canton Newton founded in August 1791 (modern day Sainte-Justine-de-Newton, not part of the seigneurie system, was modeled after British township system)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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The seigneurial system was finally abolished in 1854, nearly a century after Great Britain took over the territory after defeating France in the Seven Years' War.

It is the only county in Quebec that lies both south of the Ottawa River and north of the St. Lawrence River. Great Britain wanted to keep most of the French-speaking, ethnic French population of the area within Lower Canada during the 1791 division of Upper and Lower Canada (precursors to the provinces of Ontario and Quebec). It is geographically isolated from the Montérégie region south of the St. Lawrence.

The name relates to the historical division of the area into two counties: Vaudreuil County -- (named after Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, governor of New France) for the communities along the Ottawa River, and Soulanges County -- (named after Pierre-Jacques Joybert de Soulanges from Soulanges, Marne, France) for the communities along the St. Lawrence. Soulanges is a name of Québécois derivation, referring to its southerliness.

Since the RCM formation on 14 April 1982, the division of the county into "Vaudreuil" and "Soulanges" is still salient. The "Vaudreuil" area (consisting of the municipalities of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Saint-Lazare, Hudson, L'Île-Perrot, and others) is closer to Montreal. It is more suburban, populous, and economically and ethnically diverse. By contrast, the Soulanges area (including the municipalities of Saint-Polycarpe, Saint-Zotique, Coteau-du-Lac, Rivière-Beaudette and Les Coteaux) is predominantly rural, agricultural, and ethnically French-Canadian.

Owing to the county's geographic isolation within Quebec, and its growing population as a suburb of the city of Montreal, Elections Canada assigned the electoral district to the county in 1997.

Subdivisions

There are 23 subdivisions within the RCM:<ref name="mamrot"/>

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Cities & Towns (10)

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Municipalities (11)

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Villages (2)

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Demographics

Population

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Population History by County (1855–1981)

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1700-1855 - Seigneuries Vaudreuil-Soulanges

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1855 - Vaudreuil-Soulanges

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1982 - Vaudreuil-Soulanges

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Population History by County, 1855-1981<ref name="Recensement par comté">a.[1]
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Municipality	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1921	1931	1941	1951	1956	1961	1966	1971	1976	1981
Comté de Vaudreuil	11,003	11,485	10,792	10,445	11,039	11,555	12,015	13,170	17,378	22,625	28,681	34,053	36,593	44,257	50,043
Comté de Soulanges	10,808	10,220	9,608	9,928	9,400	10,065	9,099	9,328	9,233	9,736	10,075	10,757	11,449	13,254	15,429
Vaudreuil-Soulanges	21,811	21,705	20,400	20,373	20,439	21,620	21,114	22,498	26,611	32,361	38,756	44,810	48,042	57,511	65,472

Population History by Municipality

Population History by Municipality, 1986-2021<ref name="Recensement par municipalité">a. Statistique Canada, Recensement de la population de 1996, Profil des divisions et subdivisions de recensement : Vaudreuil-Soulanges, produit 95F0181XDB96001 au catalogue de Statistique Canada. Consulté le 20 juillet 2017.
b. Statistique Canada. 2002. Profils des communautés de 2001. Vaudreuil-Soulanges (Code 2471), Ottawa. N^o 93F0053XIF au catalogue de Statistique Canada. Diffusé le 27 juin 2002; modifié le 30 novembre 2005. Consulté le 20 juillet 2017.
c. Statistique Canada. 2007. Profils des communautés de 2006, Recensement de 2006 (Code 2471) (Hiérarchie)., produit nº 92-591-XWF au catalogue de Statistique Canada. Ottawa. Diffusé le 13 mars 2007. Consulté le 20 juillet 2017.
d. Statistique Canada. Profil du recensement, produit nº 98-316-XWF au catalogue de Statistique Canada. Ottawa. Vaudreuil-Soulanges (Code 2471) Géographie hiérarchie. 2011, diffusé le 24 octobre 2012. Consulté le 20 juillet 2017.
e. Statistique Canada. 2017. Hiérachie, Vaudreuil-Soulanges, MRC (Division de recensement 2471). Profil du recensement, Recensement de 2016, produit nº 98-316-X2016001 au catalogue de Statistique Canada. Ottawa. Diffusé le 3 mai 2017. (site consulté le 20 juillet 2017).</ref>
Municipality	1986	1991	1996	2001	2006	2011	2016	2021
Vaudreuil-Dorion	13,722	17,109	18,466	20,650	25,789	33,305	38,117	43,268
Saint-Lazare	5,065	9,055	11,193	12,895	17,016	19,215	19,889	22,354
Pincourt	9,121	9,749	10,023	10,155	11,197	14,305	14,558	14,751
L'Île-Perrot	6,586	8,065	9,178	9,063	9,927	10,503	10,756	11,638
Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot	4,325	5,261	7,059	8,737	9,885	10,620	10,654	11,427
Saint-Zotique	2,025	2,515	3,683	4,158	5,251	6,773	7,934	9,618
Rigaud	4,928	5,770	6,057	6,095	6,780	7,346	7,777	7,854
Coteau-du-Lac	3,550	4,193	4,960	5,684	6,346	6,842	7,044	7,473
Les Cèdres	3,320	3,836	4,641	5,128	5,732	6,079	6,777	7,184
Les Coteaux	2,290	2,613	2,843	3,297	3,764	4,568	5,368	5,643
Hudson	4,425	4,829	4,796	4,811	5,088	5,135	5,185	5,411
Rivière-Beaudette	1,045	1,292	1,381	1,464	1,720	1,885	2,097	2,489
Saint-Polycarpe	1,570	1,640	1,676	1,660	1,708	1,969	2,224	2,372
Terrasse-Vaudreuil	1,665	1,744	1,977	2,061	1,985	1,971	1,986	1,887
Pointe-des-Cascades	640	691	910	981	1,046	1,340	1,481	1,775
Saint-Clet	1,125	1,388	1,524	1,613	1,725	1,738	1,779	1,700
Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac	675	876	928	964	1,290	1,359	1,341	1,361
Sainte-Marthe	1,055	1,056	1,090	1,094	1,080	1,075	1,097	1,014
Très-Saint-Rédempteur	480	570	622	598	733	863	898	978
Sainte-Justine-de-Newton	860	926	934	888	929	973	922	947
Saint-Télesphore	780	772	805	809	769	762	759	754
Pointe-Fortune	400	413	451	429	507	542	580	582
L'Île-Cadieux	115	140	121	127	128	105	126	120
Vaudreuil-Soulanges	69,767	84,503	95,318	103,361	120,395	137,429	149,349	162,600

Language

Canada Census Mother Tongue - Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality, Quebec<ref name="scpast">Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2021 census</ref><ref name="cp2011a"/><ref name="census2016"/>
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Transportation

Public Transportation

The region is served by the Exo La Presqu’Île and Exo Sud-Ouest bus services as well as the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:<ref>Official Transport Quebec Road Map</ref>

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